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  2. troyness
    Bugger!! I missed the pre-order window at hlj.com for the Moderoid Mospeada. It's now order stop. I emailed bbts inquiring if they'd stock it as a pre-order or for sale on release date. Waiting for their reply
  3. sketchley
    Not many does not equal zero. Also, as you earlier stated, the ship was performing controlled braking manoeuvres. So that plume in the sky may not be "East to West", but plausibly any direction. Therefore, in addition to Chichijima, places like Guam and Okinawa are also plausible. However, I doubt that Shin was somewhere as far away as the coast of North America, simply because he wouldn't be able to see it due to the curvature of the Earth. Even Hawai'i is pushing it.
  4. Bolt
    Definitely looks like the bay area. I live an hour north of SF. Kind of dramatic and a bit high, but it sure invokes the bay. Could be Mount Diablo.
  5. Seto Kaiba
    The one good look we get at Shin's childhood home at the start of Macross Zero's first episode shows a house on top of a high hillside overlooking a large city directly on the coast. Given that he says he saw the ship fall to the west and we know from his bio that he's second-gen Japanese-American, we can assume that that's a western coastline. To me, that makes California seem like the most likely suspect. Honalulu faces out onto the ocean, but it faces south and east not west the way it would have to for the scene to be possible there. Not many Americans living in the Bonin islands, but Chichijima has another problem. If he saw the ship fall from there, the second sun he saw would be in the south not the west. IIRC, at the start of "Global Report", General Global attributes the failure to the booby trap compromising control of those devices.
  6. sjoebarry started following Anywhere I can find yamato vf-1 shoulder hinge replacements?
  7. sjoebarry
    https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/valkyrie-one-sixty-shoulder-hinger
  8. Bolt
    It looks entertaining. I'll check it out.
  9. Today
  10. Big s
    I guess we finally get a show on D+ in almost a month. Can’t even remember when they added something, let alone something good. Sadly for all the promises, it’s becoming the most worthless streaming service
  11. Big s
    I think this season wasn’t bad, just needed a little better focus instead of trying to add so many characters. Last episode was definitely the best of the bunch and kinda surprised to actually hear Iron Maiden in the soundtrack since they rarely put their stuff in soundtracks despite being one of the biggest bands ever, and especially one that still performs and sells massive shows. Great use of the song as well
  12. Scream Man
    Kind of. The first shot is him in bed. At the end of the pan down he looks to be living on a hill, pretty high. The city is laid out before him to a waters edge. And then the last shot of his house and family. Thats pretty much all we get.
  13. sketchley
    He could have been living on one of the more populous islands in the Bonin Islands (aka Ogasawara Islands), like Chichijima: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichijima If memory serves, they replicated the technology without fully understanding it; and this is given as the reason why the Gravity Control System and Fold Drive both go out of control and 'exit the ship' on their own accord when they are first used.
  14. TangledThorns
    Finale was OK, we've seen worse. I think they should have tied up Linda Hamilton's character though, she did a great job as a villain. But now I can cancel Netflix before the end of the month 😄
  15. Thom
    Good looking color on the hull @derex3592. It think, since so many shades become apparent as you look, that should free you up from trying to find that One Shade That Must Be. From going to model shows, I have yet to see anyone hold up a paint chip to a model and frown.
  16. Chas started following Netflix Original Stranger Things
  17. Chas
    If they do anything more with Stranger Things I think it will centre on the story around the man in the mineshaft and the origin of that rock, and maybe what happened to Henry between that moment and his becoming Papa's pet.
  18. rsvictor1976
    I stood in line this morning at the LEGO store to pick up this set and the Speed Champions Back to the Future DeLorean.
  19. Yesterday
  20. Hikuro
    There's an old Terminator comic by Dark Horse I read many years ago. The art style and colors are very similar to Cameron's work here. Pretty dark and horrible future in t hat comic with John Connor pretty much at the end of his rope ready to give up, and Skynet getting desperate in it's attacks launching nukes against tectonik plates and volcanos.
  21. derex3592
    That's my game plan. I'm waiting for March to get here and then I'll have to ship the two kits I have in my PW, maaaaybe shipping and tarrifs will be slightly better by then. Either way I'm not going to be pre ordering anything else from Japan for a long long time. Oh well...
  22. Thom
    Much more interested in sequels.
  23. mikeszekely
    Honestly, because the G14 is small but powerful with a gorgeous OLED screen it's usually my go-to when I'm not at my desk. That said, I have an Asus Vivobook 15 with a Core i3 I bought for around $300 probably 4 years ago that I replaced Windows with Linux Mint and upgraded the RAM from 8 to 12 GB. For light duty it still holds up pretty well, and when it does slow down I can always switch from the Cinnamon desktop to a lighter one. It's useful to have whenever there's something I need to do that's just easier with Linux, like copying a ton of files to an SSD I set up for Batocera. I also picked up an Asus CX15 Chromebook for something like $120 during the back-to-school season. I was mostly curious because I'd never used ChromeOS before. As an Android phone user I liked that it was super easy to read and reply to my text messages on it, but for something basically just running a browser I found it to be kinda slow. Since I have one big ultra wide monitor for my desktop, the Chromebook mostly gets used when I want to use the Internet at my desk when my desktop is running a game. Finally, because I used to work in IT and I prided myself on being versed in both Windows and MacOS, I have an M1 MacBook Air. It still runs pretty great, but I may sell it to a friend who only uses Macs but is stuck with a very old Intel Mac Mini if I can find a good deal on a M3 or M4 Air. Mind you, a good deal is rarely less than $700, so I wouldn't say that a MacBook is ever a "cheap" secondary device. But for non-gamers that don't need a specific Windows utility the way Apple wrings the performance they do out of a system with just 8GB of RAM, the solid battery life, and the unrivaled stand-by battery makes them a strong choice for a primary device. What specs on that Yoga? Unless you really need more power I'd keep it just for the OLED display.
  24. guyxxed
    It's been awhile since I watched Zero, but I had the impression that Shin's family lived on an island somewhere. What I remember is him and his folks standing on the front porch looking at the light of the impact on the horizon, and directly in front of their house was a beach. Unlikely to be San Fran in that case, and the anti UN attack the killed his parents would be more likely somewhere other than a major US city (in my opinions, for what it's worth).
  25. Mog
    After the play has its run, you know they’ll do a House of Vecna prequel. Probably have enough material and characters to do at least a season.
  26. Thom
    What model problem, asks one of the guys who certainly does not have a model-problem!
  27. Thom
    Really good. I think they did a great ending, though one thing left me a bit miffed. Definitely on the side hoping for a spin-off series!
  28. Papa Rat
    I have a couple builds on bench right now. I just did a test fit on the Tiger Moth from Castle in the Sky anime. And I’m about to prime up the FSS Schpertor. Very excited!
  29. Valkyrie Hunter D
  30. Seto Kaiba
    Macross Chronicle's History Sheet about the fall of the ASS-1 mentions, in passing, that the ship decelerated far more than should be possible after entering that atmosphere, which it presents as thought to have been an intentional braking maneuver. The ship was going over 10km/s when it entered the atmosphere and by the time it crashed it had slowed to only about 1km/s. Of course, something so massive hitting at "only" 1 kilometer per second still made a hell of a dent. Macross Chronicle asserts that the impact force was equivalent to a 670 megaton explosion, creating a crater 3km in diameter, with ejecta from the impact reaching altitudes over 10km and devastating an area of 100 square kilometers with the shockwave. It also notes that the impact reduced the size of the island somewhat to 16.9 square kilometers. (One of the more unusual points Macross Chronicle introduces is that the island was inhabited. A 16-man US military communications and satellite monitoring output on the island understandably did not survive the impact.) Yeah, a 670 megaton impact is likely to shake the Earth a bit different to a usual bay area earthquake. A bit, yeah... perhaps somewhat justified in the sense that the Earth Unification Government basically threw the entire global tech industry and planetary GDP at the problem for ten years, heedless of the economic consequences, and even then ended up taking a bunch of shortcuts by reverse-engineering the materials and applying that know-how to existing theoretical and practical tech instead of trying to perfectly reproduce the alien technology. (It may also have helped somewhat that what fell out of the sky was the Protoculture's lowest-bidder, ruggedized, keep-it-simple-stupid military hardware and not a more refined or advanced ship they might've used themselves. Figuring out how Gravity and Inertia Control works was basically the key to a lot of the rest too, so once they had that understanding the rest probably fell into place a lot faster.)
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